Journal-box



-J. .I. ZELL AND A. S. VOGT.

JOURNAL BOX.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 11. 1919.

Patentedlune 7, 1921.

A fl .1 m f.. m .1 q m M, V m m Z I I a 2E A N 1/ M a ZIWIV ATTORNEY JACOB J. ZELL, OF PHILADELPHIA, AND EL S. VOGT, OF ALTOQNA, PENNSYLVANIA.

JOURNAL-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 7, 1921.

Application filed March. 11, 1919. Serial No. 281,919.

To all wlzomz't may concern:

Be it known that we, JACOB J. ZELL, a citizen of the United States of America, and Axel. S. Voo'r, a subject of the King of Sweden, residents, respectively, of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, and Altoona, county of Blair, State of Pennsylvania. have invented certain new and useful Improvements iii Journal-Boxes, of which the following is a true and exact description. reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part thereof.

Our invention relates to journal boxes, especially such as are used in connection with railroad cars, and has for its object to provide in and as a part of the journal box a packing retaining shoulder so formed and placed as to counteract the tendency of the packing to move forward in the journal box and hold it in correct alinenient with the journal.

The nature of our improvement will be best understood as described in connection with the drawings, in which- Figure l is a vertical longitudinal elevation of a journal box provided with our improvement taken as on the line 11 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of our improved. journal box taken as on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. and

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view similar to Fig. 1, showing a modification of our pack ing retaining shoulder.

A is the journal box, the front portion of which is indicated at A, and in Fig. 1 the bottom of the journal box, indicated at A is formed with a backward slope. B- indicates an upwardly extending shoulder or shoulders formed in the bottom of the box approximately in line with the end of the journal which is to be inclosed in the box. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the shoulders l5, B, etc, are formed on the inner ends of a series of ribs B, B, etc.,'having between them slots C, C, etc., through which oil fed into the front of the journal box can pass to the packing filled portion of the box below the top edges of the shoulders B. D in dicates the car axle journaled in the position it occupies on the journal box and D the shoulder formed at the end of the journal. E indicates the packing which is lo- .cated in the journal box, as Shown in the drawing.

In the modification shown in Fig. 3, the bottom of the box indicated at A A as shown. is level or horizontal, and the upwardly extending shoulder B, B is continuous, and formed without slots through it, depending from an upper platform B in the front of the box.

The packing is held from forward movement by engagement with the upwardly extending shoulder formed in the bottom of the box. and, of course, also by its engagement with the shoulder D at the end of the journal, and it will readily be seen that the tendency for the packing'to move forward is effectively checked and the retention of the packing. in proper position insured.-

Having now described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A journal box formed with a packing retaining shoulder extending up from its bottom in approximately the vertical plane of the end of the journal to be inclosed in the box. I

2. A journal box formed with a packing retaining shoulder extending up from its bottom in approximatelylthe vertical plane of the end of the journal to be inclosed in the box, said shoulder bein slotted to form passages for oil from the treat to the rear of the box.

3. A journal box, a journal therein, said box having a shoulder or chock in the bottom thereof in substantially the vertical plane of the front end of the journal and terminating short of the periphery of the journal.

JACOB J. ZELL. AXEL s. voo'r. 

